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• Steam Turbines

  Online washing of steam turbines to arrest performance degradation

  To compete in today’s economic climate, petrochemical plants are strategizing on continuous long-term operation to reduce maintenance costs and increase productivity. This strategy has led some plants to ...

  On October 19, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  Emuge opens newly expanded manufacturing facility in Mass.

  Emuge Corp., a leading manufacturer of high performance taps, thread mills, drills, end mills and other rotary tools, held a Grand Opening ceremony of its expanded manufacturing facility ...

  On October 19, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  Ansaldo Energia reconfigures board, appoints new CEO

  The Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting of Ansaldo Energia shareholders was convened on Monday 14 october 2019,  in Genoa and appointed the new Board of Directors and the new ...

  On October 19, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Energy & Conference News

  Papers invited for symposium on lubricant condition monitoring industry

  Applications are invited for the Symposium Highlighting Standard Guides and Practices that Support the Lubricant Condition Monitoring Industry, Dec. 7, 2020, at the JW Marriott Austin, in Texas, ...

  On October 19, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Auxiliaries

  What a dry gas seal application in 1986 showed

  The Kårstø K-Lab dry gas seal in Norway was among the first Dry Gas Seal installations with a high sealing pressure as 132 Bara. In 1986, when the ...

  On October 17, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Three expanded power plants deliver additional 1 GW to Bolivia

  With the official inauguration of the Termoeléctrica de Warnes power plant in mid-September, all three power plants in Bolivia were inaugurated within a few weeks in August and ...

  On October 17, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  GE’s Cross-Fleet unit bags contract for service of Siemens gas turbine

  GE has announced an order for a multiyear services agreement with Sappi, a global provider of sustainable wood fiber products and solutions. GE will provide long-term maintenance services ...

  On October 17, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  MAN Energy Solutions bags Nigerian order for gas turbines

  MAN Energy Solutions has been awarded a contract to supply three gas turbine generator packages to BelemaOil Producing Limited (BPL) in Nigeria, West Africa. Three packages with the ...

  On October 17, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Gas Turbines

  GE launches new H-class gas turbine

  GE has unveiled the 7HA.03, the newest model in its HA gas turbine product line. It also announced that Florida Power and Light’s (FPL’s) Dania Beach Clean Energy ...

  On October 11, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Marine gas turbines to power USS Cincinnati

   GE Marine’s LM2500 gas turbines now power the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS CINCINNATI (LCS 20), which was commissioned into the United States Navy’s fleet on October 5 in Gulfport, Mississippi. ...

  On October 11, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors